Development

Part of Emerald Onion’s mission is to share our actions in detail in order to help educate others who wish to create their own human-rights focused encrypted transit internet service provider. We have a vision that entails many trusted nonprofits–worldwide–setting up and operating long-term, stable, and fast Tor routing operations. Below you will find a high level overview of tasks that we needed to complete in order to create Emerald Onion. As we develop, we will publish greater detail behind each action by linking to an independent blog post.

Invite meaningful and trusted people for the board of directors, executive leadership, and advisory board.

Set organizational goals.

Create mission and vision statements.

Setup KeePassXC on a secured workstation for generating and documenting passwords.

Purchase a domain name and setup the website with minimal information.

Setup social media accounts.

Setup Microsoft hosted email service for Admin@ and Abuse@.

Setup a UPS Store mailbox for registration.

Contact local data center service providers who will help by reducing costs for nonprofits and who understand the value of Tor.

Deploy the routers in the data center. Configure the pfSense or OPNsense (see BGP config) and Tor routers (see v1, v2, and v3 configs). Only run middle relays until securing and configuring RIR-provisioned IP scopes.

Create an informational letter for explaining the organization, providing contact information, and offer free and personalized education for our ISP and local law enforcement organizations, then submit it to the respective organizations.